Fall Guys: Season 4.5 update accidentally leaked the source code
Fall Guys
The Fall Guys: Ultimate knockout mid-season update is now available. Season 4.5 adds two new rounds to the title, the Cloud Slime Scraper and the Key Hammerer. In the Wolken-Schleimkratzer, players have to run away from the slime over several levels, Schlüssel-Hämmerer lets players compete against each other in several small arenas.Recommended editorial content Here you can find external content from [PLATFORM]. To protect your personal data, external integrations are only displayed if you confirm this by clicking on "Load all external content": Load all external content I consent to external content being displayed to me. This means that personal data is transmitted to third-party platforms. Read more about our privacy policy . External content More on this in our data protection declaration. The new update also brings 55 small variations for a total of twelve existing rounds. For example, there is now a very low gravity version of Hex-a-gone and Thin Ice. Players can also play with their friends in custom lobbies and cross-play between PlayStation 4 and PC is now also possible. In addition, a report function has been introduced with which you can now report players in-game. Of course, some improvements and bug fixes are also included in the new update.
What was also included in the update, but most likely not planned by Mediatonic: The source code of your game. The name of the folder that was released with the patch was: "BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame". This folder is generated automatically by Unity and contains, among other things, data for debugging. What sounds funny to us, was probably more of a moment of horror for Mediatonic. The folder has of course been deleted since access to the source code makes it a lot easier to develop cheats for the title. Fall Guys has struggled with cheaters in the past, which probably makes this leak a bit of a disaster. During the next update, the developers will probably look at the names of their folders several times.
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Fall Guys' developers accidentally uploaded source files to Steam
A recent Fall Guys update on Steam included a bunch of files in a folder called 'BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame'. The folder, which is auto-generated by Unity, includes a bunch of source files. The files were removed the following day, but their leak is potentially bad news for devleopers Mediatonic and their efforts to stop cheating in Fall Guys.
The inclusion of the files was spotted by SteamDB co-founder Pavel Djundik, who posted about it on Twitter yesterday:
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThe folder was uploaded at 9:33am on May 13th and then removed at 2pm on May 14th
The files are seemingly from IL2CPP, a scripting backend that you can use within Unity, and which Unity then converts to C++ when assembling a project. I am not a programmer, but it seems like it contains PDB debug files and C++ code.
If the folder did contain source code, and if it's still out there in the wild somewhere despite its removal from Steam, then that might make it easier for cheaters to work with Fall Guys because they wouldn't need to do any reverse-engineering of its code. That's a lot of ifs, though, so hopefully this remains a harmless mistake.
Mistakes on Steam seem to be becoming more commonplace of late. Last month it looked like Rockstar accidentally deleted a bunch of their games from Steam, and then accidentally put Midnight Club 2 back on sale when restoring them.
